International Perspectives on Pragmatism.

International Perspectives on Pragmatism combines, in a very appealing manner, a pragmatist approach of democracy with practical politics and history of ideas. The result is a meditation on contemporary society, while in the background there is a continuous debate on the concept of democracy, as defining mark of Western culture. Both its critics and its supporters talk about a decay of democracy, which would not justify an idealist perspective anymore. Arguments for this transpire from both t ...

Includes bibliographical references.

TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; PROLOGUE; ON HUMAN DIGNITY; ASPECTS OF THE CRISIS OF THE WEST; PART I; SOCIAL CONTRACT THEORY AND DISASTER PREPARATION; LIBERTARIANISM; DEMOCRACY, LIBERALISM AND FREEDOM; WILLIAM JAMES AND THE HAYMARKET AFFAIR; PRAGMATISM AND POLITICAL PRACTICE; THE VALUES AND PRACTICES OF DEMOCRACY IN DEWEYAN PRAGMATISM; THE RIGHT TO PERMANENT RESIDENCY AS A HUMAN RIGHT; PRAGMATIC ANARCHY IN A.N. WHITEHEAD; PART II; RATIONALIST GROUNDS FOR PRAGMATIST DEMOCRACY; HUMANITY AND MORAL DUTY; THE RORTYAN CONCEPT OF JUSTICE AS A 'LARGER LOYALTY'

RORTY ON DEMOCRACY AND JUSTIFICATIONCONTEMPORARY SOCIETY UNDER THE TYRANNY OF A DEMOCRACY OF THE TRUTH; PRAGMATISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS; TEACHER, DEMOCRATIC VALUES AND METHODS (DEWEY AND HIS PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION); A PRAGMATIC DEFENSE OF JUSTICE; PART III; COMMUNITY OF ART; COMMENTS AND QUERIES.

English.

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